A day for Thorpey

Test Match Special

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🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Test Match Special reflects the tributes to Graham Thorpe at The Oval on Day Two of the final Test, on what would have been his 56th birthday. We hear from his former teammate Alec Stewart, Graham's wife Amanda and the chief executive of MIND, Sarah Hughes. If you are affected by the issues discussed in this podcast, please go to the BBC Action line.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts.
0:04.7	You're listening to the TMS podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live.
0:09.8	It's been a very poignant day here at the Oval.
0:12.4	August the first would have been the 56th birthday of the former Surrey and England,
0:17.2	Bats and Graham Thorpe, who a year ago died after struggling with depression and mental health issues.
0:22.6	Thorpe played a hundred tests for England for his last match.
0:25.6	20 years ago but as tough as was saying he meant a lot to the current England side as well having worked as a coach to many of them.
0:33.6	He was a hero to many for the way that he played the game.
0:36.6	Here comes Julian again, left arm over the wicket. He was a hero to many for the way that he played the game.
0:41.3	Here comes Julian again, left arm over the wicket.
0:46.5	And this ball is a short one that's pulled away, or in fact it was hit in the air.
0:49.6	Now it's going to bounce over Slater's head, and that's his hundred.
0:51.6	Unbelievable way to get it.
0:52.7	It was in the air.
0:54.7	Slater thought he had a chance of catching it. He moved in and then stopped realizing that he wouldn't. It bounced straight get it. It was in the air. Slater thought he had a chance of catching it.
0:57.4	He moved in, then stopped realizing that he wouldn't.
1:00.7	It bounced straight over his head, and Thorpe has made 100 in his first test.
1:02.0	101.
1:04.7	What a great way to start a test career.
1:07.7	And let's let the crowd tell you the tale.
1:12.4	And Thorpe takes a short single on the offside and he's got his hundred his first hundred in Australia
1:15.6	his second test hundred he is celebrating before he
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